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S. H. SMITH.

LAMP BRACKET.

No. 354,261. Patented Dec. 14, L886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

S. HENRY SMITH, OF BENTON, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLTAM W. NORMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

LAM P-BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,261, dated December 14, 1886.

Application filed February 25, 1886. Serial No. 193,221.

To (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, S. HENRY Snrrn, of Benton, Scott county, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Lamp-Brackets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improvement relates to means for securing the lamp and holding and adjusting the reflector, substantially as is hereinafter more specifically set forth and claimed, and exhibited in the annexed drawing, making part of this specification, and in which Figure l is a side elevation of theimproved bracket with a lamp in position thereon. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the bracket and its appliances. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, the bracket-shelf not being shown. Fig. 4 is a view in perspective of that portion of the device used to secure the lamp. Fig. 5 is a vertical section of the reflector, and Fig. 6 is a view in perspective of the refieetorholder.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

The frame-work of the bracket A is substantiall y the upright part a, which is attached to the wall B or other support for the bracket, and the shelf a, upon which the lamp 0 rests. The part a of the bracket is slotted vertically at a of, leaving between the slots a bar, a, whose edges (4* at Fig. 3, are beveled, and which is made smaller in crosssection at a Fig. 2.

D, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, represents an arm adapted at one end, (1, to be secured to the bracket and to be vertically adjustable thereon, and at its opposite end, (1, to be clamped around the neck 0 of the lamp. To this end the arm is made as represented more distinctly in Fig. 4, being madepreferably of a wire rod, shaped at its end at to fit the bar cr" of the bracket by bending the rod to fit the bar a in a horizontal direction, and also being extended vertically, substantially as is shown at (1 to bear upon the bar a upward and downward thereon and at its end cl, and made in two curved parts, (1 d to be passed and fitted around the lamp-neck, and to be clamped thereto by means of the loop (1*, which is slipped upon the arm D toward its end d when it is desired to at- (No model.)

tach the arm to the lamp, and then slipped toward the end d, as shown in Fig. 1, to fasten the end at to the lamp-neck. The arm is attached to the bracket by slipping the end 01 onto the bar a at its part a in a sidewise direction, and then turning the arm around so as to point horizontally outward therefrom, and then slipping the arm upward upon the bar a to the desired level for connecting the arm with the lamp-neck.

The lamp-reflector E is attached to the bar a of the bracket by means of the arm F. This last-named arm is represented more clearly in Fig. 6. It is also a wire rod shaped adapted to press sufficiently against the end 7 f to hold the reflector at any desired point of adjustment thereon, at the same, time permitting the reflector to be intentionally slipped upward and downward upon the arm F. The arm at its extreme end, f, is curved to enable the reflector, when the projection is slipped onto that part of the arm, to be turned so as to direct the light downward at various angles of adjustment.

The above-named parts, combined and 0p erated in the manner described, form a convenient lamp-rest upon which many of the or dinary lamps now in use can be supported and safely held in an elevated position, and the light directed and concentrated as may be desired.

I claim-- 1. The combination of the bracket A, having the shelf a and the bar a as described, with the arm D, having its end d shaped and extended at (P, and provided with the loop d, and its end (1 made in two curved parts, (1 d as described.

2. The combination of the bracket A, having the shelf a" and the bar a with the adjustable arm Fand the reflector E, having the having the curved parts cl d at one end, and tubular projection eand spring e, as described. at the other end having the parts 6?, and the 10 3. The combination of the bracket A and loop d, adjustable on said arm, as described. the arm F, having the curved end f, with the 5 reflector E, having the tubular projection e HENRY SMITH and the spring 6', as described. Witnesses:

4. The combination of the bracket A, hav- 0. D. MOODY,

ing the shelf a and the bar a with the arm D, J AS. MoPHEETERs. 

